Powers on Omega Minor

[Ya Sam]

Bigger review at this site.

http://www.nlpvf.nl/book/book2.php?Book=469



'In its baroque, epic narrative style and structure, in its ambition to lay 
bare human motivation and the course of history, in its attempt to perceive 
‘science, art and memory’ as one great interwoven whole, Omega minor is a 
thoroughly impressive and fascinating book.'



>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Powers on Omega Minor
>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:17:16 +0300
>
>Sorry if it has been posted before. Here is some info in English on the 
>'Pynchon reflex' novel by the Flemish writer Paul Verhaeghen.
>
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>"The book's translation to English, with publication by Dalkey Archive 
>Press, is expected in 2007. Publication in German by Eichborn Press is due 
>out mid-2006.
>
>American novelist Richard Powers, after reading "Omega minor," says in a 
>2005 interview for "Knack," a Belgian weekly publication, "It is an amazing 
>book. Much contemporary American literature does not dare raise its head. 
>It is domesticated. Verhaeghen, on the other hand, takes on the whole 20th 
>century in a single novel."
>
>Set in early 1995, the 612-page novel touches on the Manhattan Project, 
>Hitler, Heisenberg and the Holocaust, bouncing between 1995 and 1935, 
>Auschwitz and Los Alamos, Potsdam and Berlin. Approaching the 50th 
>anniversary of the end of World War II, the story is about the madness and 
>cruelty of the 20th century and asks whether the war really is over.
>
>As Verhaeghen puts it, "What if the violence of the new state is the same 
>as the violence of the vanquished Reich?"
>
>In Ludo Stynen's review of the novel in "World Literature Today," he 
>describes "Omega minor" as a sea of stories, plots and subplots yielding a 
>panoramic view of the 20th century. "
>
>http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=3048
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